That sentiment isn’t likely one shared inside 49ers headquarters. The team this offseason hired the second woman ever to be given a full-time coaching position, Katie Sowers, who’s also the first openly LGBT coach in the NFL.

San Francisco coach Kyle Shanahan was asked about Newton’s comments on Friday on KNBR’s “Murph & Mac Show” and said his players have been receptive to Sowers’ discussion of routes. After all, she works most closely with the team’s receivers.

“We definitely have a woman who talks about routes all the time. I think our players definitely listen to her. I think that definitely caught me off when I saw Cam’s comments,” Shanahan said. “I heard he apologized last night which I think was definitely needed. But that’s definitely something that we don’t look at it that way around here.”

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